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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is not a team competing for the playoffs, and looks very likely to finish the season with a lottery pick, and with two aging, pending UFA goaltenders on their roster. The circumstances are such that benching either of them does nothing positive, and actually only serves to frustrate and anger two veteran players.
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Hiller utterly crap the bed when he got to play.
Now we have to take care of his feelings too?
Did you not say he is a "pro"?
Playing him does nothing positive is more like it.
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Without knowing all that went into the decision to have Ortio "rotting on the bench" it doesn't really follow that we can have any insight into what potential impact it had on his career. It sounds to me like you are more resentful about the money earned by Hiller than you are concerned about Ortio's development which is practically guaranteed to continue into next season.
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Hartley has been making foolish decisions all year.
Just have to come to the conclusion that he is not a very good coach, then everything becomes more explainable.
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Well, I fail to see how this decision will cause any harm to anyone whatsoever. If we all agree that Ortio has looked quite good in his previous three or four games, then would it not also follow that the decision to play him against the Penguins as opposed to the Sabres shows a high level of confidence on the part of the coaches? He has held his own against LA, Boston, NYI and Anaheim. Why should anyone think that he is incapable of playing well and getting a win against Pittsburgh?
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Is there a rule that Ortio cannot play against the Pens 2 days later if he gets to play against the Sabres?
The same coach who played Ramo in back-to-back games while rotting Ortio on the bench?
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I couldn't agree more. Fortunately, there really is no good reason to consider the goaltending decision in tonight's game an irrational one.
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The irrational part is justifying this irrational decision.